The theme of the novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston, is the search real love and finding a new form of independence. Throughout Janie’s life, she faced numerous struggles as she searched for unconditional, true, and fulfilling love. Janie seeks an intimate relationship with somebody that lives up to her idea of true love, like that between a bee and a blossom on the pear tree that as child she witnessed while she was sitting under in her grandmother’s backyard. Through the course of this journey, Janie then gains independence, which makes her the protagonist of this novel.…
A. It seems that recently, the healthcare system has been placing labels on the values of lives. Doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies are separating patients on the sole bases of their finances. In these situations, individuals with health insurance are receiving priority care over those without health insurance. Doctors and hospitals are increasing waiting times of those without insurance, to take advantage of those with insurance. In addition to doubled-waiting times, these uninsured patients are even forced to take lower grades of medication. This isn’t only unfair, but inhumane, displaying the belief that these charity care patients’ lives aren’t as valuable as those with insurance. These actions seem ironic in a nation that believes in equal rights. Placing a price or level of importance on a human being’s life is heartless, greedy, and hypocritical. To reckon the significance of a person’s life due to their ability to pay hospital their medical bills…(to be continued).…
Despite major advances in the fields of medicine and healthcare services over the past years, a significant health gap between rich and poor remains. As populations grow, so apparently do health disparities. The poor continue to shoulder a particularly disproportionate social burden in terms of inequitable access to decent healthcare, rising costs and higher rates of morbidity and mortality.…
Over the past decade a rapidly expanding body of literature has demonstrated the existence of healthcare disparities. While consensus has not emerged regarding the causes of disparities, they are generally thought to be related to provider, patient, and healthcare system factors. On the one hand, the current US healthcare system is oriented toward individualized acute care. Yet healthcare disparities by definition are a population level phenomenon. Individuals do not have disparities, groups and populations do.…
The best way for the medical profession to overcome disparities in healthcare is to enhance treatment outcomes by improving equality of care. As a child, I relied on government funded healthcare programs for medical treatment. Currently, I am insured through my employer’s health insurance policy and am able to enjoy the luxuries of having private insurance. Experiencing treatment from both channels I realized a gap in the quality of care. The medical profession can fill this gap by focusing on teaching compassion and equality in the classroom. Muhammad Ali once said, “It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.” If medical programs continue to emphasize the…
In CPH 387 thus far, we have discussed and built a foundation to help us understand health disparities and health equity, as well as why health equity is important for everyone. Considering that the United States spend more per capita on healthcare than any other developed nation, yet continues to have subpar overall health scores throughout our populations (David Squires, Chloe Anderson, U.S. Healthcare from A Global Perspective), describes a deep-seeded health inequality, which results in fewer health benefits throughout. It has been researched and can be seen that, throughout countries considered more equal, health disparities overall decrease, and more benefits arise, such as higher educational scores, lower morbidity and mortality rates,…
The article addresses the health care disparities and the health disparities patients experience when accessing care. However, the aim of the article is to inform nurses on how they can close the gap by being culturally competent and by demonstrating effective communication (Beard, Gwanmesia & Miranda-Diaz, 2015, p. 58). Although this article is in perspective of US citizens, however I learned the importance of having cultural competence, which will assist me in providing care for each individual client. Cultural competence is defined as "a set of congruent behaviours, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enable that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural…
Health disparities from no access to healthcare lopsidedly influence a developing fragment of a population. Clear differences exist in rates of medical coverage scope. The outcomes of being uninsured are vital and contain utilization of lesser preventive administrations, poorer well-being result, an expansion of death and incapacity rates, bring down yearly wages due to illness and disease, and the exceedingly created phase of sicknesses. Therefore, the uninsured gathering shelter being slightly poor, youthful, and from racial and additionally ethnic minority. Disparities in health and health care does not only affect the groups facing disparities, but also limit overall improvements in quality of care and health for the broader population…
Disparities in healthcare refers to differences between ethnic groups in health insurance coverage, access to care, and the quality of care. Although the term disparities is often used to describe racial or ethnic disparities, there are many dimensions of disparity that exist in the U.S. "There's evidence indicating that socioeconomic status, racial discrimination, and their consequences play a substantial role in health disparities in the U.S." Research shows that racial and ethnic disparities in health are the result of existence of adverse social determinants that contribute to minorities poor health and less access to healthcare. In this report I talk about why there's disparities in healthcare, and the reason why African Americans have…
Reducing and eliminating health status disparities by providing access to appropriate health care is a goal of most health delivery systems. As advanced health care providers employed at the retail clinic, we attempt to reduce or eliminate health care disparities by providing high quality, affordable care to the uninsured, low-income minority populations. This group of populations are less likely to have access to medical care by way of primary care. As a result, these populations tend to use more costly services and are not reached by early preventive care or intervention services. In a general sense, the retail clinics ease the primary care burden by providing low cost affordable care. Retail-based convenient care clinics are small health…
References: Mosser, K. (2010). Introduction to ethics and social responsibility. San Diego, Bridgepoint Education, Inc.…
Homecoming coronation is a traditional way of recognizing students, and the king and queen supposedly represent the best of their high school. However, I believe the classification of homecoming court has degraded over time and became moreover, a popularity contest. Students are forced to take away an hour of their academic time, to watch an assembly where homecoming court nominees are recognized for being on a higher pedestal than others.…
Completely eliminating health disparities between the races and ethnic groups is a difficult task to accomplish. Discrimination is the major effector in disparities felt by different races and ethnic groups. It effects the environment they live in, their education, and their incomes, which all play a role in the health disparities they face. Some health disparities faced by the different races and ethnic groups include cancer screenings, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, HIV infections/AIDS, and immunizations rates. In order to completely eliminate health disparities, the government must strive for eliminating the social construct of race, as well as promoting empathy and sensitivity towards immigrants that have different cultures than Americans.…
Perhaps the United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without the universal healthcare system for its citizens. A large number of the U.S. population does not have healthcare coverage, and it is more obvious among the population of color, minorities, low socioeconomic statuses, and cultures. Studies show Blacks, Hispanics, American Indians and people with low income are likely to be uninsured. They not only lack the healthcare coverage, but also do not get the quality of care and experience worse health outcomes. Disparities in health and healthcare are persistent problem in the U.S. As a prospective student pharmacist and future healthcare professional, it is a significant issue to me.…
As global stratification has resulted in different levels of industrious nations, healthcare has been impacted as well. Wealthy nations that are industrialized are capable of creating an excellent healthcare system that provides for themselves, whereas the least industrialized nations “have neither the trained surgeons nor the money to buy the technology (Henslin 549).” Also, capitalism tends to support the wealthier individuals because they “are the ones who make decisions about how the health care system will be run (OpenStax 2016).” The poor do not have the power or the money to use the commodity of capitalistic healthcare. This is not the only aspect of the conflict perspective on healthcare. Monopolizing U.S. health care has become a way of controlling who can be doctors, and how doctors will be paid. The American Medical Association, or AMA, gained a monopoly that allowed them to pass laws to prohibit certain individuals from attaining a medical license. “A sort of priesthood of medicine (Henslin 552)” developed, creating an elite group who have complete control over the medical field. Only these members have the power to diagnose and treat ill individuals. These two ideas collide to create conflict within society. If only a select group of individuals are allowed to practice medicine, and the poor are unable to afford to support these specialized individuals, then the health care for the less fortunate will be minimal, if not nonexistent. Conflict theorists emphasize that this conflict, rather than the individual, causes a social problem within…